AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs Intel Core 7 150U

Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U vs Core 7 150U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U beats the Core 7 150U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. The Core 7 150U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.